Crash Bash

Crash Bash is an educational road safety programme with key road safety messages for secondary school students. It's organised by Council in collaboration with NZ Police.

Crash Bash 2024 'Bad Habits’

The 2024 performance ‘Bad Habits’ is touring schools in greater Christchurch during February and March 2024.  The Court Theatre produced and will tour the performance to more than 8,000 secondary school students in years 11 to 13.

The theme for 'Bad Habits’ focuses on being aware of the distractions on the road and not developing habits that can be dangerous.  This includes mobile phone use, cutting corners and intersections.

For further information contact our School Travel Team at schooltravel@ccc.govt.nz.

Did you know?

In the Canterbury Police district, for the young driver 16 to 24 age group, between 2015 and 2019 (5 years), there were:

  • 54 fatal crashes
  • 390 serious injury crashes
  • 1592 minor injury crashes

The majority of crashes were due to poor observation (829), failing to give way or stop (641), alcohol (418), poor judgement (367) or speed (359).

This resulted in the type of crashes for young drivers crossing in front of oncoming traffic while they were turning, having rear-end crashes of other vehicles and losing control on bends or having a head-on crash.